Jericho Fans Airing Ads to Bring Show Back

The SciFi Channel reports fans of the twice-cancelled CBS show Jerico are purchasing more than 200 local ads in the Los Angeles area in support of bringing the show back.

Jericho was the CBS series about a small Kansas town that struggles to cope with life after a mysterious conspiracy-ridden nuclear strike devastates several major cities across the United States.

But rather than some cheap, B-Grade Mad Max ripoff, the show is at least as much about the three-dimensional characters as it is the overall plot. The plot itself is intriguing and the storyline always leaves you wondering what will happen next, and whether what you think happened really happened the way you think it did. The combination is a fascinating, compelling show.

So why, you might ask, would such a good show bite the dust–twice? Because the idiots at CBS never gave it a fair chance.

When it first premiered, CBS aired several episodes…and then it just went off the air for several months (networks are starting to do crazy things like that more and more these days). By the time they brought it back several months later, many viewers had already gotten involved in other shows. So when ratings were low, they cancelled it.

But outraged fans fought for Jericho’s revival, even sending in tons of peanuts to CBS executives (there’s an inspirational story behind that).

So the network brought it back…but didn’t get started until around February…many months after the regular TV season starts. “Gee, let’s kick Jericho in the head again and see how well it does!” Again, by the time they came back with new episodes of Jericho, many viewers were already embroiled in other series. So again this fine show gets the axe.

But fans are busy at work, fighting to get the show revived on another network–hopefully one that will give it a fair chance.

I hope they succeed. Shows of this caliber are rare. It’s too bad the morons at CBS didn’t realize what they had–and treat it with appropriate respect.

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